The money comes as a booster shot for the homegrown startup to keep up its intense competition with American rival Uber as both firms are burning millions of dollars every day in incentives and discounts for India's USD 12 billion taxi market.

Taxi service Meru Cabs has filed four new complaints with the country's antitrust watchdog Competition Commission of India (CCI) against taxi aggregators Ola and Uber for allegedly abusing market dominance in four cities.

Vodafone is offering an additional 2GB data to its women post-paid customers in Delhi NCR for free as a gift on the occasion of International Women's Day while Flipkart is celebrating women's day with special offers through the month.

Cab aggregators Ola and Uber drivers' strike in Delhi and NCR have caused difficulty to a lot of people who are dependent on these apps for conveyance on a daily basis. And since there seem to be no sign of the Ola and Uber drivers' strike coming to an end, it may be useful to consider a few other options that are available. Many users, in fact, have already are downloaded some of these taxi-service apps that are not as popular as Ola and Uber.

Uber charges Rs 6 per km for up to 20 km and Rs 12 per km thereafter at a base fare of Rs 40 for UberGO. The ride time charges - calculated on the basis of total time of the ride - for 'UberPOOL' and 'UberX' have also been hiked to Rs 1.5 per minute.

There have been allegations that aggregators like Uber and Ola indulge in \"predatory pricing\" as they are backed by investor money. These app-based companies offer rides at fractional costs compared to that of fleet cab operators like Meru.

\"Meru's entire range of taxi services will now be accessible to Facebook users via Facebook Messenger and will allow them to book cabs using key words and conversational question-answers through the service called Meru Messenger Bot,\" the company said in a press release.

The radio taxi operator has also shifted its focus to new segments like ride sharing, car pooling and plans to introduce inter-city ride sharing services in popular routes like Delhi-Chandigarh, Delhi-Meerut etc.

\"We have introduced a technology that will help distinguish CNG and diesel vehicles on its app, which will help us keep track of the drivers' compliance with the cleaner fuel norms in Delhi,\" Ola said.